History 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Josephine Butler, Margaret Sanger, Sexually Transmitted Infection
15 May 2019
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Urban middle class reformers had many causes: 1. Obscenity and censorship anthony comstalk and margaret sanger (birth control movement: 2. Prostitution and venereal disease: strategies to cope with this: they were viewed as evergrowing problems, 1. Rescue homes: san francisco and evangelical workers working with chinese prostitutes: 2. Contagious diseases act(s): britain + social reformer josephine butler who wanted to repeal the act on feminist grounds: 3. Lost steam after ww2 when eugenics was utilized to the extreme in nazi germany (people understood the evils of eugenics) Even though there is a philosophical contradiction: reason for birth control: eugenics justification for birth control and sanger and douglas are a good example of that. Birth control was better for children: for the sake of children for poor children (not eugenics, poor families need financial relief from having so many children, children were more nurtured and loved if they were wanted.
